About ClickUp
ClickUp is a commercial work management platform that tries to gather many team tools in one place. The vendor calls it the everything app for work, bringing together tasks, docs, goals and chat so that teams can reduce the number of separate subscriptions they use.
The site lists projects, agents, automations, sprints, whiteboards, docs, calendar, chat and time tracking among its features, along with an AI assistant called Brain and a release branded ClickUp 4.0. Its message is to save money and time by putting apps, AI, projects and chat in one workspace with shared context. There is a free plan with no credit card required, enterprise options and demos.
ClickUp is hosted, proprietary software with a pricing page, and it is not self-hosted. It suits teams of many sizes that want one customizable tool for task and project management, documentation and communication.
Key features
- Tasks and project management
- Docs, whiteboards and goals
- Chat and calendar
- Time tracking and sprints
- Automations and AI agents
- Brain AI assistant
Good fit for
- →Teams consolidating several work apps
- →Agile sprint planning
- →Project documentation and goal tracking
- Tags
- project-management
- task-management
- docs
- whiteboards
- ai-assistant
- all-in-one
ClickUp: questions and answers
- What is ClickUp used for?
- ClickUp is an all-in-one work platform that combines tasks, docs, goals, chat, whiteboards and AI in a single app for teams. It is a good fit for teams consolidating several work apps, agile sprint planning, and project documentation and goal tracking.
- Is ClickUp free?
- Yes. ClickUp has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per seat per month.
- Is ClickUp open source?
- No. ClickUp is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to ClickUp include Worklenz, Plane and Huly.
- What are some alternatives to ClickUp?
- ClickUp competes with Asana, Trello and Jira. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source ClickUp alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to ClickUp
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Worklenz
Project Management
All in one project management tool for efficient teams
AGPL-3.0vs Asana★ 3.2k
Plane
Project Management
🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern projec
AGPL-3.0vs Jira★ 60k
Huly
Project Management
Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack,
EPL-2.0vs Jira★ 28k
Leantime
Project Management
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building w
AGPL-3.0vs Asana★ 12k
Paca
Project Management
AI-native, free, open-source alternative to Jira, Trello, ClickUp & Monday. Built for Scru
Apache-2.0vs Jira★ 1.9k
Filament Project Management
Project Management
An open source Project management tool based on Laravel and Filament
MITvs Jira★ 1.1k
SaaS alternatives to ClickUp
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Asana
Project Management
Asana is a work management platform where teams and AI agents plan, automate and track projects, tasks and workflows.
SaaS
Trello
Project Management
Trello is a visual task and project tool built on boards, lists and cards, with an inbox, planner, automation and Power-Ups for connecting other apps.
SaaS
Jira
Project Management
Jira is Atlassian's project and issue tracking tool, used by software, marketing, IT and operations teams to plan, track and release work with AI assistance.
SaaS
Wrike
Project Management
Work management with Gantt charts, request forms and cross-team workflows
SaaS
Teamwork
Project Management
Project management for client work with time tracking, billing and resource planning
SaaS
Smartsheet
Project Management
Spreadsheet-style work management with grids, forms, automation and reporting
SaaS

